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From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024

the School’s strategic initiatives, including courses such as Digital Marketing Strategy, Business and Climate Change, and AI Essentials for Business. Additionally, the group launched the first cohort of a track in its Credential of... View Details

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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

Investment (in millions, excludes capital expenses) FY 22 $98 FY 21 90 FY 20 96 FY 19 87 FY 18 82 Capital Investment (in millions) FY 22 $43 FY 21 22 FY 20 43 FY 19 38 FY 18 92 Building Debt Outstanding (in millions) FY 22 $28 FY 21 33 FY... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Women at the Top

Professor of Business Administration, gave the second case presentation on First Direct, a "virtual" bank in England that has built tremendous market share by providing services via telephone. MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Business... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young

23 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

individual-level data from an Indian software services firm to examine the effects of team familiarity and variation in market experience on multiple measures of performance for over 1,100 software development projects. Consistent with... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Jan 2015
First Look

First Look: January 20

when the costs of financing a reorganization are greater than financing costs to a potential acquirer. Consistent with a senior creditor liquidation bias, the greater use of secured debt leads to more sales in bankruptcy-but, this result... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

markets. Behind such corporations was a market for capital in which entrepreneurs had to attract investors to buy either debt or equity. This paper examines the investor protections included in corporate... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

October 2016 (Revised January 2017)
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Bally Total Fitness (B): The Fall, 2005–2016

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

By many measures the largest health-club chain in the United States in the early 2000s, Bally Total Fitness sold most of its remaining fitness clubs to 24 Hour Fitness in 2014 and disappeared from the industry top 100 rankings. After Bally was bedeviled by accounting... View Details

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20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

got a US government that lacks the latitude to move that it had in the 1980s: large government debts and obligations facing the US now threaten to crowd out the investments in infrastructure, innovation, and individuals that we need to... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

organizations as being focused on tangible hard metrics like profit or market capitalization. But for-profits also do a lot of organizational capacity-building work. Venture capital investments are very much about building the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2015
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Higher Ground

that it raised more than $2 million as part of a capital campaign, thereby erasing a debt accrued in a period that included not only the post-Katrina flooding but also an economy that cratered in 2008. On the way back to the French... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Health, Social Assistance

12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan

the district’s solicitor and financial consultant waive fees for refinancing debt from 2014 was rebuffed as agenda-driven by a 20-year veteran of the board. Cognetti’s response: “My agenda is to get us through this crisis and stop any... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

01 Dec 2001
News

September 11: A Community Reflects

market opened for the first time after the attacks, Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter watched the Dow plunge as she began a guest appearance on The Connection public radio program. An expert on how businesses adapt to change, Kanter... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

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